by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2015 | Education, K-12
The region’s long, slow decline in the number of public school students shows no sign of ending, judging from official enrollments for the new school year, and nobody expects that to change any time soon. In the past decade, official Oct. 1 figures show, enrollment in...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog
My weekly talk with New Hampshire Public Radio’s Peter Biello took a slightly different turn this week; we didn’t discuss my Monitor column because NHPR had already done a story about the topic – instead we discussed a short story of that that...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog
By UNH News Service: Why did NASA’s Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observe a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations? A UNH-led study published today in the...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog
One of the main reasons I’d like to have an electric car is not having to go to the gas station. Gassing up at home every night (so to speak) sounds awesome, and I’ve interviewed a few owners over the year who say they love not having to go out of their...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog
This was my view driving home last night (picture taken through a rain-spotted windshield as I waited for the very damp guy with Mayer Tree Service to flip the Stop sign over to Slow). Instead of cutting down trees next to the power lines, they cut them upward. The...
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